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Faith and fiction in the Scopes monkey trial


Faith and fiction in the Scopes monkey trial

You may know the story of The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopesthe subject of Brenda Wineapple’s new book, Keeping the faithIn the 1925 Scopes “Monkey Trial,” as the trial is better known, the state of Tennessee prosecuted a high school teacher under the Butler Act, which criminalized the teaching of human evolution in […]